Up until now, NASA has never paid too much attention to Uranus – but now the space agency wants to take a good, long look. And one of the things it might be investigating is all that gas. A NASA … Read More
Astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse literally blew its top in 2019, losing a significant portion of its visible surface and producing a massive Surface Mass Ejection (SME) after analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope … Read More
What’s the Latest? University of Cambridge physicists have discovered a theoretical foundation for the existence of wormholes, which are tubes that connect two different points in space-time. If a piece of information or a physical object could travel through the … Read More
The poles of Jupiter have fascinated and mesmerized us ever since space probe Juno gave us our first breathtaking views of the regions. In one of the latest pictures Juno has sent back of the north pole, you can see … Read More
A brand new telescope will be the first to look for colliding black holes and neutron stars in search of gravitational wave sources. Gravitational waves, or ripples in spacetime caused by the universe’s most energetic collisions, were discovered in 2015 … Read More
Long after the last stars fade, black holes will herald the end of the Universe with a spectacular show of fireworks. Black holes are areas of space-time where gravity rules supreme: A black hole’s gravitational pull is so strong that … Read More